Zechariah 7:5

7:5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh 1  months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me – for me, indeed?

Zechariah 8:21

8:21 The inhabitants of one will go to another and say, “Let’s go up at once to ask the favor of the Lord, to seek the Lord who rules over all. Indeed, I’ll go with you.”’

Zechariah 10:6

10:6 “I (says the Lord) will strengthen the kingdom 2  of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph 3  and will bring them back 4  because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and therefore I will hear them.

1 tn The seventh month apparently refers to the anniversary of the assassination of Gedaliah, governor of Judah (Jer 40:13-14; 41:1), in approximately 581 b.c.

2 tn Heb “the house.”

3 tn Or “the kingdom of Israel”; Heb “the house of Joseph.”

4 tc The anomalous MT reading וְחוֹשְׁבוֹתִים (vÿkhoshÿvotim) should probably be וַהֲשִׁי בוֹתִם (vahashi votim), the Hiphil perfect consecutive of שׁוּב (shuv), “return” (cf. Jer 12:15).